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Extendedly basic vim setup

Ahoy Internet, here’s a neat and fairly simple vim configuration for programming. Feel free to copy over settings/plugins you find useful, or just download a repository from GitHub with settings and plugins.

The .vimrc file

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" => Editing
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syntax on

" Indentation settings
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set smartindent
set autoindent
set expandtab

" Disable backups and .swp files
set nobackup
set nowritebackup
set noswapfile

" Ignore case when searching
set ignorecase
set smartcase

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" => Looks
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colorscheme darkburn
set background=dark

" Set terminal window title
set title

" Shorten press ENTER to continue messages
set shortmess=atI

" Show last command
set showcmd

" Highlight cursor line
set cursorline

" Ruler (line, column and % at the right bottom)
set ruler

" Enable wild menu (tab command autocompletion)
set wildmenu
set wildmode=list:longest,full

" Warn if exceed 80 columns limit
if (&ft == 'python')
    highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929
    match OverLength /%81v.+/
endif

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" => Misc
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" Use Unix as the standart file type
set ffs=unix,dos,mac

" Enable filetype plugins
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on

" Ignore compiled files
set wildignore=*.o,*~,*.pyc,*.pyo

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" => Plugins
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" EasyMotion: one leader key instead of two
let g:EasyMotion_leader_key = '<Leader>'

" NERDTree: auto open and close
autocmd VimEnter * NERDTree
autocmd WinEnter * call s:CloseIfOnlyNerdTreeLeft()

" NERDTree: focus on text window (left)
autocmd VimEnter * wincmd l
autocmd BufNew * wincmd l

" NERDTree: auto close if last window
function! s:CloseIfOnlyNerdTreeLeft()
    if exists("t:NERDTreeBufName")
        if bufwinnr(t:NERDTreeBufName) != -1
            if winnr("$") == 1
                q
            endif
        endif
    endif
endfunction

" Exuberant Ctags: autogenerate on py file write
au BufWritePost *.py silent! !ctags -R &

" Pydoc: open in new tab instead of split
let g:pydoc_open_cmd = 'tabnew'

" Pydoc: disable search term highlight
let g:pydoc_highlight=0

Plugins

If you are not planning to use some of the plugins, make sure to remove plugin-specific rules from .vimrc => Plugins.

  • Exuberant Ctags: allows you to generate index of variables, functions and classes to freely move between them. A bit more info on how to use these in article Using vim for writing code.
  • Colo(u)r Sampler Pack is not really a plugin, but a collection of color shemes. 100 of them, to be precise. Feel free to choose whatever you like.
  • ScrollColors allows you to try out every theme in visual mode. Just type in :SCROLL.
  • EasyMotion allows you to move between words, lines and sentences with a lightning speed. Just hit <Leader> + w to jump to one of the words forward or <Leader> + b backward (leader key is a backslash by default). It can do more neat things, documentation is pretty self-explanatory.
  • NERDTree is a directory tree, like in all modern IDEs (but of course better).
  • tComment allows you to easily comment out blocks of code. Hit gcc to comment a line or gc while selecting a block in Visual mode.

Source

You may want to head over to GitHub and grab a version from here: https://github.com/ruslanosipov/dotfiles.

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